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Author Anonymous
Source Title Anglo-Saxon Chronicle (B and C Versions), 957-982
Language Old English

Edition(s)

Editor Article or Book Title Journal or Pub.Loc. Date pp.
Go to The Anglo-Saxon Chronicle: A Collaborative Edition, vol. 4: MS B Taylor, Simon The Anglo-Saxon Chronicle: A Collaborative Edition, vol. 4: MS B Cambridge 1983 54-6
Go to The Anglo-Saxon Chronicle: A Collaborative Edition, vol. 5: MS C O'Keeffe, Katherine O'Brien The Anglo-Saxon Chronicle: A Collaborative Edition, vol. 5: MS C Cambridge 2001 80-5

Translation(s)

Editor Article or Book Title Journal or Pub.Loc. Date pp.
Swanton, M. J. (Michael James) The Anglo-Saxon Chronicle London 1996 113-25

Event/Transaction List

Factoid Type Source Reference Short Description
1 Event ASC (BC)  957 BC Here Edgar 11 acceded to the kingdom of the Mercians.
2 Event ASC (BC)  95<9> B, 959 C [Here] Edgar 11 acceded to the kingdom both of the West Saxons and the Mercians and the Northumbrians.
3 Event ASC (BC)  <971> B, 971 C Here Oscytel 5 passed away on All saints' eve, ten days before Martinmas, at Thame.
4 Event ASC (BC)  <971> B,971 C Oscytel 5 was first consecrated as diocesan bishop at Dorchester.
5 Event ASC (BC)  <971> B, 971 C [Oscytel 5] was afterwards consecrated as archbishop at York with the permission of Eadred 16 [C in error has: Edward] and his witan (Anonymi 1583).
6 Event ASC (BC)  9<77> B, 977 C Here there was the great gemot (Anonymi 1584) at Kirtlington after Easter.
7 Event ASC (BC)  9<77> B, 977 C There [sc. at the gemot at Kintlington] Sidemann 3 passed away suddenly on 2 kalends of May [= 30 April]
8 Event ASC (BC)  9<77> B, 977 C Sidemann 3 was taken [sc. from Kirtlington] to St Mary's Minster, Abingdon, and honourably buried on the north side of St Paul's porticus.
9 Event ASC (BC)  978 C Here in this year Edward 12 was martyred.
10 Event ASC (BC)  978 C Æthelred 32 acceded to the kingdom.
11 Event ASC (BC)  978 C [Æthelred 32] was consecrated as king.
12 Event ASC (BC)  978 C In that year Ælfwald 34 passed away.
13 Event ASC (BC)  978 C His [sc. Ælfwald 34's] body lay at the minster at Sherborne.
14 Event ASC (BC)  979 C In this year Æthelred 32 was consecrated as king on the Sunday a fortnight after Easter [= 4 May] at Kingston.
15 Event ASC (BC)  980 C Here in this year abbot Æthelgar 8 was consecrated as bishop to the episcopal see at Selsey on 6 nones of May [= 2 May]
16 Event ASC (BC)  980 C In this same year Southampton was harried by a sciphere (Anonymi 1588). And in that same year Thanet was harried.
17 Event ASC (BC)  980 C Most of the inhabitants of the burh (Anonymi 1587) were killed or [literally: and] taken captive [sc. by the sciphere (Anonymi 1588)].
18 Event ASC (BC)  980 C Most of the inhabitants of the burh were killed or [literally: and] taken captive [sc. by the sciphere (Anonymi 1588)].
19 Event ASC (BC)  980 C In the same year Cheshire was harried by the northern sciphere (Anonymi 1589).
20 Event ASC (BC)  981 C Here in this year St Petroc's place [sc. monastery] was harried [sc. by Anonymi 1590].
21 Event ASC (BC)  981 C In this same year much harm was done everywhere along the coast, both among the people of Devonshire (Anonymi 1592) and among the Wealas [= ?Cornish].
22 Event ASC (BC)  981 C In that same year Ælfstan 38 passed away.
23 Event ASC (BC)  981 C His [sc. Ælfstan 38's] body lay in the minster at Abingdon.
24 Event ASC (BC)  981 C Wulfgar 28 then acceded to the bishopric [sc. of Wiltshire].
25 Event ASC (BC)  981 C In that same year Womær 1, abbot in Ghent, passed away.
26 Event ASC (BC)  982 C Here in this year three ships of Vikings (Anonymi 1594) arrived among the people of Dorset (Anonymi 1595).
27 Event ASC (BC)  982 C [Three ships of vikings] (Anonymi 1594) harried in Portland.
28 Event ASC (BC)  982 C In that same year London was burned [sc. by Anonymi 1596].
29 Event ASC (BC)  982 C In that same year two ealdormen passed away: Æthelmær 13 in Hampshire and Edwin 18 among the South Saxons.
30 Event ASC (BC)  982 C Æthelmær 13's body lay in the New Minster at Winchester.
31 Event ASC (BC)  982 C Edwin 18's [body lay] in the minster at Abingdon.
32 Event ASC (BC)  982 C In this same year two abbesses among the people of Dorset (Anonymi 1595) passed away: Herelufu 1 at Shaftesbury and Wulfwynn 4 at Wareham.